Topsy Turvy Wedding Cake – With So Much COLOR!

At Ph.D.-serts, we take our cakes seriously – especially wedding cakes!  When you contact us about our wedding cakes, here’s the process we go through:

1.  We sit down with the bride and groom to design your wedding cake from the inside out.  This means, we bring cake & filling samples – yay! And we pick your brain to find out what kind of style, mood, theme describes you and your wedding.  By the time we finish our initial meeting, you will leave with a fully designed wedding cake.

2.  We sketch out the cake and send the sketch and wedding cake order form to you for review.  You can review it on your own time and discuss the details, without the pressure of us sitting there next to you.

3.  You return a signed copy of the order form with a $100 deposit to hold the date of your big day.

4.  Two weeks before your wedding, we’ll contact you again to make sure you still like the cake we’ve designed.  We also get a final head-count to ensure that you’ll have enough cake to feed everyone at the reception.  At this time, the remaining balance of your cake is due.

5.  The week of the wedding, we get to work creating your dream cake!  We work with your reception venue to set up a delivery time and deliver the cake before any of your guests arrive.  We will leave the cake table “picture ready” so that is the last thing you have to worry about!

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Disney Silhouettes Wedding Cake

Katie and Ryan are classic Disney fans.  They wanted their wedding to reflect that without screaming “MICKEY MOUSE!”

Instead of numbering their reception tables, they labeled them with some of the classic Disney kisses off of this poster:

This classic Disney kisses poster was used as inspiration for Katie & Ryan's wedding cake.

And they wanted to incorporate the images on the cake as well.  So here is the cake we designed together:

The Disney Kisses wedding cake covered with fondant and decorated with hand-cut Disney silhouettes and fondant drapes & roses. Continue reading

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Happy Valentine’s Day 2013!

Happy Valentines Day!  While many people (myself included) think that this holiday is over-commercialized, it is still a day set aside to remind us to love each other.  So if you do nothing else today, make an effort to love others and tell your friends and family how special they are to you.

Ok…*stepping off my soapbox*…last weekend, I was able to help sprinkle a friend with love.  She is having her 2nd baby and, while she doesn’t need a full baby SHOWER, we gathered to “sprinkle her & the new baby with love.”  The cake was a giant cupcake carved out of 4 layers of 6-inch round cakes.  It was covered with fondant and decorated with fondant rainbow sprinkles and fondant hearts.  And the flavors – white almond with Bavarian Cream filling.

The cake made for a Mommy's 2nd baby "sprinkle" - and just in time for Valentine's Day!

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Black & Teal Damask Bridal Shower Cake

It’s Monday!  Let’s freshen the new work week with a gorgeous, elegant cake.  Later this month, we’ll be making Andrea’s & Anthony’s wedding cake (It is TOTALLY different from this one. We can’t wait to show you!), but Andrea’s mom & sister wanted to surprise her with a bridal shower cake as well.

So we met in secret (Have we mentioned how much Mel loves sweet secrets??  Gender reveal cakes, surprise cakes, etc!) and designed this beauty:

Front view of Andrea's bridal shower cake.  Cake covered with fondant and decorated with fondant ruffles and royal icing Damask & piping. Continue reading

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Vinny Lecavalier’s 1000th NHL Game Cake!

We are thrilled to share this cake with you!  Vinny Lecavalier, captain of the Tampa Bay Lightning NHL team, just played in his 1000th game.  That is quite an achievement!  So to celebrate, the team held an after-game reception in his honor last Friday night.

When Vinny’s wife asked us to make the cake for the celebration, we were elated…and honored…and a little nervous…all at the same time.  For such a special celebration, this cake had to be perfect!

After designing the cake with Caroline, we got right to work.  The flavors were red velvet cake with cream cheese filling, chocolate cake with Bavarian cream filling, and white almond cake with raspberry cream filling.  Yum!

The front view of Vinny Lecavalier's celebration cake.  1000 games in the NHL is a big deal!

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Retro 1960s Birthday Cake

Today, we’re going to take a trip back in time.  This is a retro cake we made in October so let’s take a walk down memory lane while the birthday girl remembers the fun of her youth!

Shannon asked us to make a mod, retro cake from the 1960s for her 50th birthday party.  She was going all out and even asked the guests to arrive in costume!  The ultimate flashback party!

We designed the cake with Shannon by using components she’d seen on other cakes and patterns taken off her party decor.

A tetro 1950s birthday cake covered and decorated with fondant and topped with hand-molded records and a go-go boot!

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Another Gender Reveal for a Friend

Did you see the latest Gender Reveal Cake we posted on Facebook?  One of Mel’s good friends just announced her pregnancy and wanted to reveal the gender of the baby among a small group of friends.  While she wants to remain anonymous until she can contact all her friends and family, we just can’t leave you hanging.  Here’s the big reveal moment!!!

Another gender reveal cake! Blue = baby boy!

Blue!  It’s a boy!

 

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Mel’s Gender Reveal Cake – Boy or Girl???

Mel made her own Gender Reveal Cake to break the news to the family - was it pink or blue?! Watch the video to find out!

Last weekend, Mel baked her own Gender Reveal Cake to break the news to the family.  Was the cake pink or blue?  Watch this YouTube video of the cake cutting to find out!

Mel also had a giveaway on her Facebook page, and the winner of the $15 gift certificate was….*drum roll please*…Sheryl Aman! Sheryl, check your Facebook Messages because we sent you the instructions for claiming your gift certificate.

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Gender Reveal Cake & Contest – Enter to Win!

Mel’s having another baby!  She already knows the gender of Baby #2, but do you???  Guess the gender and post your suggestion for a name on our Facebook Page for a chance to win a $15 gift certificate from Ph.D.-serts & Cakes!  Everyone who comments will be entered to win.

We’ll reveal both the gender AND the winner on Sunday, December 9, 2012.  Good luck!

Gender Reveal Cakes are all the rage!  Will the inside of the cake be pink or blue??? Gather your friends & family and slice into the cake to find out!

And, by the way, did you see us on the Fox 13 news?  They did a whole segment on gender reveal cakes and we were thrilled to contribute!  Check out the segment here, and then call us to schedule your own gender reveal cake.

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